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AmeriCorps member helping others navigate challenges he faced

Nick Noble is currently serving his second 450 hour
AmeriCorps term of service with the Utah Conservation Corps’ (UCC) inclusive
crew. The inclusive crew was established in 2007 by AmeriCorps member Andy
Zimmer and UCC assistant director Kate Stephens to engage persons of all
abilities in environmental stewardship projects.

Last summer Noble, who has a significant visual impairment,
served his first term on a UCC trail crew in High Uintas Wilderness navigating
difficult terrain and taking on new and challenging conservation service work.
This crew reduced fuels on 5.75 acres and completed heavy maintenance on almost
a mile of popular trail.

While he is physically able to work on any UCC crew, this
summer Noble applied specifically to the inclusive crew survey project so that
he could help crew members with disabilities successfully navigate the new
challenges of conservation crew work. He originally applied to be a crew member
this summer with the intention of pursuing crew leadership next summer.
Instead, UCC staff encouraged him to be a crew leader and he stepped up
confidently into this role.

The following is excerpted from the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City press release on July 30, 2015.

The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today announced a $30 million public-private partnership to advance the City’s vision of transforming the delivery of mental health care services. The partnership will support the implementation of the new Connections to Care program in collaboration with the Center for Economic Opportunity and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which will help integrate mental health services into programs already serving low-income communities.

National Service: A Volunteer Force Multiplier After Hurricane Katrina

In the last 10 years, Corporation for National and Community Service AmeriCorps members and Senior Corps volunteers have coordinated nearly 650,000 community volunteers in response to the Hurricane Katrina recovery.

Learn more National Service disaster response efforts on our Katrina10 site